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Bezig met laden... Still Lives: A Novel (origineel 2018; editie 2019)door Maria Hummel (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkStill Lives door Maria Hummel (2018)
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I started out reading the ebook but enjoyed the book more once I switched to the audiobook. Overall a pretty good book. Ready to see what Reece chooses for September's book of the month. ( ) Self indulgent. That's really the best way I can describe this book. The writing is good, and the idea behind the story is intriguing, but it meanders, slows, goes around in circles, and then meanders again, and it's at least 50 pages too long (even though it only comes in at a whopping 277 pages at full length as it is). I was hoping for a much bigger revelation at the end. At one point I was holding my breath, certain there would be a pay-off for the time I'd invested in the story. Some monumental discovery. A conspiracy involving a number of people. A betrayal or major shock or something... but none of it came to pass. The reveal, when it happened, was weak and seemed to hit the main character out of nowhere. And once she came up with a solid suspect, the story unfolded like a paint-by-numbers work, leading to the inevitable conclusion with the requisite confrontation scene and bloodshed. I enjoyed the writing, and I was happy enough to flip the pages and see how the story would unfold, I was just very disappointed that the story was... well, that the story was THE story. No surprises, no twists, no intriguing revelations. The best part, by far, is the author's exploration of a world that views female murder victims as a spectacle; just another salacious bit of entertainment to sell magazines and newspapers and get people to tune in to the evening news. I appreciated taking a deeper look at how we all (myself included) absorb these types of stories, and how women are portrayed in the media overall. But I still wanted more from a mystery novel. Although I found the inner workings of an art museum to be fairly interesting, I thought the characters and the mystery itself were rather odd. There were some twists that were sort of intriguing, but there was a lot of extraneous fluff and the story moved rather slowly. This would not be high on my list of recommended books.
It’s a thrilling mystery that will leave you wondering which characters you can and can’t trust. Onderscheidingen
Fiction.
Literature.
Suspense.
Thriller.
Kim Lord is an avant garde figure, feminist icon, and agent provocateur in the L.A. art scene. Her groundbreaking new exhibition Still Lives is comprised of self-portraits depicting herself as famous, murdered women-the Black Dahlia, Chandra Levy, Nicole Brown Simpson, among many others-and the works are as compelling as they are disturbing, implicating a culture that is too accustomed to violence against women. As the city's richest art patrons pour into the Rocque Museum's opening night, all of the staff, including editor Maggie Richter, hope the event will be enough to save the historic institution's flailing finances. Except Kim Lord never shows up to her own gala. Fear mounts as the hours and days drag on and Lord remains missing. Suspicion falls upon the up-and-coming gallerist Greg Shaw Ferguson, who happens to be Maggie's ex. A rogue's gallery of eccentric art world figures could also have motive for the act, and as Maggie gets drawn into her own investigation of Lord's disappearance, she'll come to suspect all of those closest to her. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.6Literature English (North America) American fiction 21st CenturyLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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